Starting a new design project
In this chapter, you will temporarily step away from analysis and research work in FigJam files and instead discover Figma's essential tools and functions. You will find a lot of material to learn, and it's completely normal to feel overwhelmed by all this new information. But the good thing about this chapter is that you can refer to it from time to time when you're unsure of any of the basics of Figma. So don't worry about memorizing all the concepts of each function; you will see how everything works later on in the book, and each tool and feature will be explained in a more practical way.
Design files
You already know that Figma has two types of files – FigJam and design. You've learned about FigJam files in detail in the previous chapter. This time you will go back to the file selection and make another choice, namely to create a new design file.
To create a new blank design file, you have to open the welcome...